Bargrave Deane

"Bargrave" - caricature by Spy in Vanity Fair, 4 August 1898

Sir Henry Bargrave Finnelley Deane (28 April 1848 – 21 April 1919[1][2]) was an English judge.

He was the only son of Sir James Parker Deane and was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford where he won the International Law essay prize in 1870.

In 1870 he was called to the Bar, and from 1892 worked primarily in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. He was made Queen's Counsel in 1896.[1]

He served as Recorder of Margate from 1885[1] until he was raised to the bench as a Puisne Justice of the High Court on 1 February 1905,[3] being knighted at Buckingham Palace on 10 February.[4] He retired in 1917,[1] was granted an annuity of £3,500,[5] and was sworn of the Privy Council on 16 November that year.[2][6]

From 1908 to 1911 he was the first Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.[7] He died in London.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sir_Henry_Bargrave_Finnelley_Deane
  2. 1 2 http://www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncil3.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27761/pages/841
  4. ↑ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27764/pages/1113
  5. ↑ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29909/pages/749
  6. ↑ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30384/pages/11839
  7. ↑ http://www.iskb.co.uk/OFFICERS.htm
Preceded by
(none)		 Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
1908-1911 		Succeeded by
Henry Pellatt


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